Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-27

THE SND PLtINV OF TUE GIRL
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the Present Time said to BE Ungsl-
l~nt-M' series OF the Unappreciated
Girl he sorrow and Disgrace of Sit
ting UnheedeG ~ Her Mothers Side
Cup uf Real Misery.
Fro1a the Bost .. Herald.
Going to the halY Not ~ said a
brilliant young woman last week when
certain swell event of that sort wasunder
discussion. - never 20 to balls in
Boston. There aren't enough men to
make them interesting. For my part
do not care for those callow youths from
Harvard, who are the only dancing men
nowadays, and 1t fills me with wrath to
see those OF an older growth standing IN
rank and file in the doorways looking on,
carping and criticising, and never exert
ing themselves to be agreeable. No balls
for me, thank YOU / prefer to take my
dissipation IN the shape of dinners, teas,
and tODOggans."
This was a charming cosmopolitan.
ene has lived in every quarter OF the
globe from the Sandwich Islands to Nice,
and is remembered wherever she has
been as one OF the cleverest and most
fascinating of her sex. Though she is
rather severe upon Boston at times, she
admits partly that the state OF affairs in
regard TO men is pretty much the same the
world over, and that society from party
eoer's aspect is sadly in need OF reform.
twenty-five or thirty years ago, when
our fathers and mothers We're in the
bloom of youth, and evening after even
ing found delight in tripping the light
fantastic toe, matters were conducted on
very different plan from that whicA is
adopted by leaders OF fashion in these
times. Then there was no formal coming
out, with rockets red glare and bombs
bursting in air, with gowns OF tulIe and
satin that cost Mr.. Worth long nights Of
meditation, with balls aud parties max
ing fearful inroads upon the paternaI
oank account, and columns of newspaper
comment. Alter a girl had finished with
school, she went, without any flourish Of
trumpets, to every entertainment to
wnIch she was invited arrayed IN simple.
ine expensive irOcks of tarletan. some
times with chaperon, sometimes with
out. 1t was quite proper for her to 60 to
any ball accompanied by a young man
WHO had asked her to he his guest tor
the evening She had little
card upon which was printed a list of
the evenings programme of dances, and
one swain alter another came up gal
lantly and put his name down for as
many FOlkas and quadrIlles as the fair
cGarmer could be induced to grant to
single admirer. # she happened to be
stranger OF debutante (thOugh the lat
ter name was quite unknown them the
youth VINO had her under his especial
wing took care that her card was filled
with partners WhOm be approved and
the result - as that every girl, more or
less attractive, had a capital time, and
no sucn thing as "getting left" was ever
heard Of. OF course, the men had to
make an effort to bring all this ABOUT.
T,,r ysrp 4 nv
was no lOunging in the doorway : in tw0s,
and tnreas, and tens, no strOllng in for
an hour just 70 see who was there and
what was going on, but every one nut in
and danced from beginning to end of the
bail, and all went merry as a marriage
dell.
Now see what contrast to this is g
modern party. LOOK in al Berkeley Hal!
the night OF a HarVard assembly. when
is typical Boston revel. These as
sem blies, as they are called. are gotten
up annually by the leading society men
OF the senior class at Harvard. The list
OF those to be invited is drawn up under
the supervision OF Boston pOtentates who
know just where the line ought to be
drawn between the blue blood and the
red, and the affairs are matrOniZed by
ladies of nigh standing aud acute pGrcep-
lions, who can throw Just the proper
amount of warmth or cooiness INTO their
greetings OF tue various guests who are
received by them. So tue Harvard as
semblles are gatherings OF the creme
de la creme. TO te4in with. no
girl goes without a mafrOn - her mother,
an aunt, married sister, or, perhaps,
some other 9lrPs mother. The matrons,
dressed with more or less magniticeuce,
according to their ength Of purse and
fOndness tor display, are RANGED around
three sides OF the hall as a sort OF back
ground for the brighter toilets Of their
young charges, VINO are gotten up in all
bravery of tule and ribbons that feminine
Ingenuity can devise. Every one wears
the decOll9tte and sleeveless cOrsaCo, Tor
Boston, which held out stOutlV for a long
time against that shocking innovation,
has at last succumbed, and, after her
usual fashion, goes almost 10 the eX-
IRENE. And this is the rank
est OF heresy, which ought
not to be told IN Gath or breathed in
Askelon. Boston girls will never become
famous for the loneliness Of their necks
and arms. The lowest bodicee reveal in
Tar too many cases an awful prominence
Of cOll0r-bOnes ana shoulder blades, upon
which the light is apt 10 play unbecom-
lnely, and, as for arms-wtl! thoss
which are not as slender as ppestems
are red and rough as any milkmaid's
and sometimes large and snapeless
enough to almost be a deGormity. How
ever, the decGle,te waist is certainly a
great advantage In point Oh GOODNESS and
comfort in dancing, and, as nobody seems
To mind the display OF bones in the least,
The fashion Is, perhaps an advance.
There is no german at the assemblies.
blessing for which many a prayer Of
Thanksgiving goes up from the lips of the
poor pills whose forlOrnity is less re-
marked in succession OF various dances
Rnd constant changing of partners. A
waltz follows polka, a work Il WALTZ in
pretty rapid succession, and ne belle is
in great demand, man after man coming
to ask for turn, 80 that she never sits
down except at supper time rom The mo-
ment she enters iii the m moment OF her de
parture. nushed with triumph and sue
cess. Between the dance gay process
sion Of prOmrnaders circles about the
room, called the go as-you please"
Bat now comes the sad and pathetic
biGe. the misfortune which may seem
triti ng u the uninitiated, but which to
toe unhappy victim brings anguish and
suffering as real AS any there is in the
world. There are plenty OF girls who are
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